The Sun. — London, England, 1838-05-09 00:00:00

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In the Advertisement of the Manchester Asphaltum Company, published in The Sun yesterday, for " Mr. J. D. Barey, Stock and Share Broker, North Wales State and Mining Office,;" read Mr. J. D. BARRY, North Wales Slate arid Mining Of-17es. The publication of Tux SUN NRWSPAPER comincnced this day at 5 ;vinutes past Three o'Clock. _ 174 1 z-rari SI !TIT WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1838. Being firmly persuaded that nothing is so injurious to the moral feelings and habits of the industrious classes as the apprehension of poverty—as the almost moral certainty of comparative destitution in old age, unless riches can be acquired early in life—we deem it a duty which we owe to the public, and particularly to the classes which we have mentioned, to extend the c)bservzt!ions which we made in 7 'he Sun of Saturday last, upon the pospects held out by the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society to the provident of every grade in she scale of social being. We believe, with D'ls RA EL t, that want of money or want of lure will be found at the ho:tom of all the crimes, and nearly all the misfortunes, that affect the happiness of our social relations. Not oniy poverty, but the well-founded dread of it, is an evil of no ordinary magnitude—a temptation to amass wealth by dishonest means, which few weak minds, with the opportunities in their favour, have been unable to resist. To make a people moral and 'happy the first step is to educate them, and the next is to prove to them that by husbanding their honest resources it will be impossible for them, with industry and good cond!rct, ever to encounter that worst enemy of human lao_ppiness—indigence. The Bri tish Legislature has, frcur time to time, devoted much of its attention to these objects. The Parish School and the Benefit Society are existing monu ments of its solicitude in the way of providing for the mental and corporeal wants of the industrious classes. It is now admitted on all hands that Benefit Societies have failed to render the poor more independent. They hold out the hope of a provision in sickness and old age ; but the way in which they administer aid to the sick, is of itself enough to break the spirit of any generous-minded individual. Besides, what is the average amount of sickness in the life of a labouring man, that he should be called upon to devote his surplus earnings to the keep ing up of a sick fund ? Why, on an ave rage, somewhere about' from six days to twelve and a half annually, betwixt the ages of twenty and sixty five ! Is the fact doubted ? We quote the returns made by the hest authorities upon the subject : Class of Persons. Period. Average amount of Sickness. Average yearly Sickness in the period. Highland Societies' return 120 to 6.5 East India Company's labourers 20 to C 5 Factory Commissioners— Cotton 121 to 61, Wool, Yorkshire 11 to 611 Ditto, West of England 121 to 611 Flax, Yorkshire 121 to 61 Silk 2l to 61 Society for Diffusion of Useful! Knowledge ,E 0 to 65, Months. Days. 16 4 9 0 '7 10 29 8 13 9 1 11 4 1' , 4 I ,J r! 18 41 In cases of sickness for a few days, it is but seldom that applications are made to Benefit Societies for any portion of the funds ; and it is no longer a mystery that the best conducted workmen rarely benefit to the amount of one farthing from the Societies' coffers. Not so the drunkard, the idle, and the improvi dent—who, under one pretext or other, contrive to subsist upon the hard earnings of their ho nest fellow-workmen. But, independently of all this, sickness and old age are not the only evils to which humanity is heir, against which it is neces sary to make an ample provision. As regards the helpless members of a family, want of employment is the same as want of health. To save the lives of his children, the member of a Benefit Society, who loses his work, has no resource but to tamper with .his health—perhaps destroy his constitution for life—in order to qualify himself to become the recipient of the fruits of his own industry ! Is not this cruelly un just ? And yet these arc not the only defects in the system of Benefit Societies, as is obvious from the following summary, which we extract from the Pros pectus of the Institution which we are recommending to public patronage :- 1. Because sickness itself is not a calamity of equal probable duration to the fluctuations in the quantity of employment and other casualties, and misfortune, against which Bene fit Societies offer no protection. 2. Because, out of a given means, the sum laid aside for sick ness must diminish the provision for old age. 3. Because many must contribute to the sick fund who never become chargeable upon it, and the value of such contri butions is lost to themselves and families. 4. Because sickness, being a state of non-productiveness, must necessarily be included in any protection against such an occurrence. Such are the defects of Benefit Clubs—and most serious defects they are, too. Now for the National Loan Fund Society's remedial projects:— it is to remedy these defects, inherent in the constitution of Benettt Societies, that the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society prop ores to submit a plan of deferred annuities on a aew p rinciple, w hi c h w ill not on l y afford amore ample provi sioa for old age, and protection against sickness and mi-,fortune, b u t, in addition, the mean?, at all times, of putting his ener gies in motion, and, in the event of a premature death, better protection to his family. The pl a n proposed will embody several es sen ti a l o bj ects : 1. To secure an increased provision for old age, out cf a given saving, by applying it exclusively to the purchase of a deferred annuity. 2. To render the purchase of a protection in sickness unne cessary, by enabling the purchaser of a deterred annu i ty to withdraw or b orro w two-thirds of his previous payment. 3. By, the use of two-thin is of all h's payments when required, to limit misfortune and want of employment, and extend the power o f p ro d uc ti ve ness by an increasing command, in each year, of capital, so that, while providing for old age, each successive contribution renders him more se- cure against presen - t 4. To atford, at the age at which the Deferred Annuity would commence, without reference to his then state of health, the option of receiving, instead of his annuiV, its value N BRIDGE TO-: :ORROW. £. s. Ix. s. National Loan Fund! Deferred Annuities Option of Benefits, at t Benefit Societies, ditto , 47 16 1 291 11 23 0 Nil X. S. [4436 Sickness. Lean. • %of the of the payments payments pa Nil ances in sickness. % of the payments received. Nil. To any man who is in the least acquainted with business, the advantages here held out by the National Loan Fund Society, over every other institution, for the convenience of persons of limited in come, are of no ordinary magnitude. There arc few men in trade who will not readily admit, that there were occasions, in the course of their business transactions, when the command of a few hundreds would have all but realized the means of an independence for them. Hundreds have been forced to become bankrupts—to the ruin of themselves and their families—whom the advantages here derivable, from the saving of a few shillings weekly, would have maintained in credit with the world. We dare not trust ourselves to look deeper than the social surface, in order to point out the crimes engendered by the prospect of hopeless destitu tion. They will suggest themselves but too readily to every person capable of the least reflection. For these evils, necessarily inherent in the present social system, the National Loan Fund Society offers the most effec tual remedies which the ingenuity of man has yet devised. In the meanwhile we trust that our Provincial Con temporaries, whose co-operation is so necessary to the success of any project, however excellent, which wears the semblance of innovation, will unite cordially with us in canvassing the merits of the new Institution, and its adaptation to the wants of the middle and working classes. Projects of improvement, based on sound principles, are sure to gain ground in public faith, in proportion as they are made the subjects of candid, public discussion. The Clergy of every religious de nomination, the Magistracy, the Parochial Guardians of the Poor, and all who from their rank or station in life have claims upon the confidence of the industrious 'classes, will do a world of good by taking part in a discussion of the merits of the plan of social' bnproVe ment proposed by the National Loan Fund Society. However supinely many of them may feel upon other questions, we believe there are v er y f3w among them indifferent to the wants of the p oor , when it is possible to provide for them without adding to the already oppressive burdens of those moving in the middle sphere of life. We have :therefore, just grounds for calculating upon their zealous co operation, if we can only prevail upon them to take the subject into their consideration. In so good a cause we shall not be easily discouraged. Our own honest impression is, that we are presenting them with a moral lever by which they may elevate the character, and improve the condition of every poor but industrious family in the country. Since the above was written we have learned that several influential Benefit Clubs have intimated their deire to join the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. W e have further learned that this so desirabl- , a junction can be effected by correspondence with th Society, without prejudice, either to the existence, o the established convivial meetings of the Benefi Clubs—so necessary to the healthy recreation of the -, workmen, and to the watching over the interests of their respective trades. This is all that the best lends of the working classes can reasonably desire. For ourselves we should be sorry to interfere with !their convivial or other meetings for the necessary re :laxation of the mind, and the comfort of the body, after a week of severe toil. A moment's reflection in deed, will convince them that there is no necessary connection between the subscribing to a Provident Fund, and the meeting as a body, either to recreate themselves in a rational way, or to deliberate upon the ever fluctuating relations between the demand for, and the price of, labour. By all incans let them meet as often as they may think convenient, for the purposes of business or pleasur4 provided they take care to lay up a sure and independent' fund to supply the necessities of old age. This cannot' be so well efFected by means of a Benefit Club, because such Clubs only provide against two, out of the whole list of human possible calamities. If we ask any sen sible cabinet-maker, for instance, what advantage would he gain from a Benefit Club to which he had sub scribed for twenty years, in the event of his changing his location, so as to render it impossible for him to keep up his weekly or monthly contribution to the Club;. his answer must be " nothing." How different would be the answer he would make to us, had he been so long a subscriber to the National Loan Fund Society, to the amount of only two shil lings or half-a-crown weekly ? What we then wish the working classes to do, is to distinguish between the new institution and Clubs for convivial and business pur poses. They have, in fact, no necessary connection what ever ; and whoever seeks to confound them, is not the working man's friend. Now, in advocating the claims of the National Loan Fund Society to the earnest attention of the middle and working classes—and above all, the latter, because the most helpless—we seek no other merit than that of desiring, above all things, to promote their moral and pecuniary welfare. The postponement of Sir EARDLEY WILMOT'S motion for the immediate and total abolition of Negro apprentice ship to the 22d inst., naturally suggests the question " How can the interval be turned to the best account." Petitions to the Legislature arc at once the most constitutional and the most effectual means of promoting the great object which the friends of the Negroes have in view. There ought to be meetings, not only in every city and town, but in every parish in the three kingdoms, and at these meetings the clergy of the Established Church should take the lead. We have seen with delight, that in almost all the public meetings which have been held on this subject, the Mi nisters of the Church have taken part. But that we conceive is not enough. On a question like this, which is entirely divested of all political bearing, and in which the rights of outraged humanity arc to be vindicated, it is the peculiar province —the high and distinguished privilege— of the ministers of that Gospel which proclaims glad tidings to all men, and inculcates the great social doctrine of universal brotherhood, to stand in the foremost rank, and both by example and exhortation to stimulate the efforts of the laity in a cause so just and holy. Let us not then be accused of presumption, if we suggest to the p aroc hi a l Clergy the propriety of addressing their various congre gations on this subject from tho pulpit on Sunday next. The effect of so general and simultaneous a movement would be electrical, and we cannot imagine a service more acceptable to HIM " who has made of one blood all nations that dwell upon the face of the earth." No news from Spain. FRENCH FUNDS.—Pants, MAY 7. LATEST PRICES. Five per Cents. 108 f. 45c. Three per Cents., Sif. 15c. Bank Actions, 2,700 f. Romans ' 1014. Belgian Loan, 103 1 4. Belgian Bank, 1,415 f. Portu,•ue,e Three peP Cents., 22N. Heytian Loan, 495 f. Spanish Actives, AUSTRIAN FUND°.,—Vin,rA, APRIL 9.3. Five per Cents. Matalliques Pour per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1157X, —Allgemelne;Zeitteng, May:3. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have numerous arrivals this morning of various foreign papers— by the Jamaica mail, as well as from Lisbon, and other parts, but none or them bring any news of importance. The accounts from Lisbon are of a very meagre description. All was tranquil there. Consols opened at the leaving offprices of yesterday, 93i 94 for Account, and 934 for money; no business doing es yet. Money continuing plentiful and difficult to be employed in commercial affairs with advan tage, the monied men arc beginning to make purchases in the British Funds, although they obtain less interest for their capital than by hazardous speculations in commercial affairs. Exchequer Bills improved to 71 73 ; India Bonds, 81 83 prem. ; India Stock, 2704 2711; Bank Stock, 2044 205. In the Foreign Market we do not hear of a ny specu l ations as yet worth attenti,:n. Spanish Active, 20 with Coupons ; P or t uguese, 334 ; Three per Cents., 294; Brazilian, 764; Mexican, 284; Commu• blau, 274 28 . Shares—Claridge's Asphalte, 12 American Bank, 34 ; Robinson, PRICES Oi? STOCKS Till Bank Stock per Cei.t, !tel. . 3 per Cmt. Cont 94 4 ; British, IA ; British and North • DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Ind a ;t.O Ditu, Ban.is .......... south Ftctk 3kper Cent..—..... ............ —' 01d Annnitiei .. .. Ditto Its.' lO O l4 N. w Oitto New .1 , /, per Cent.... .. ........ 102% 3 r.er Cent. Annuities, :751 New 5 pet Cent-. — Exch. Bills, ..t,l,t CO —— pm Bank Long Annultleatoexpire Di( t0.....„,,,,„„„„yj0 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 ls'.,f, 1-16 Ditto Sman PM Oct 10, , SQSP Jan. 5, 1.1k50....... I..ni Jan. 5, 1.:. , R). ....... April L, 1880 — In. - -7.lalltock for Account.. ...... J,..r. . 5, 1 : 770 — Consols for Acconnt PrtiCES OF FOEEILiN EUND3 THIS DAY AT ONE O'Cl OC K. Austrian Bonds - Pe,ulflan Bonds ........ .......-.. BeZgian Bends .•—• •...•... — Ditto Account ..... ............. Ditto Accc,unt ..... -....... . Pertugth,e. Bonds — Brardian f..i.,nds ...... ........... Ditto New 80m1i,.... ..... Ditto AcCiunt , — Ditto Account Buenos Ayes Bonds ... ......... .. Ditto Acco:mt ...........« — Ditto Account ... ..... Chilli= Bonds. ...—.......-.... Pro:gall Bulls .... -....- ..... ..• .. Ditto A:s.c.r.int •,••••••••••••• .6 Run Bonds, 18•2`2 Cotrublan 80n1z..-..........- ... Ditto Acetunt .....,.... .. . Ditto Accolint .... ........ ... Mtn Metallic..: — C.iluinblan Bonds, 1324. — Spanish Bonds - Ditto Account ..... ......... Ditto Account — Danish Bonds ..• .«.. — Ditto Bonds, k.l. 20% Dittn Account — D'.tto Account ... — Greek 80ii,"3...... ....... -.- Ditto Bonds, 1325 ........ Ditto AccouTit .._ ...... ...... —— 3 per cent.... Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent.... Exchange —f. —c. Ditto Acco•unt ... Dutch, 14'. per core bi% Ditto. .... per cent.. — Ditto Account .......... Ditto Account Neapolitan...- .... ...... ....... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX Paid. re: Sharp, British Iron Company SU 10!.i Aspkalte, Claridge's Patent 2 Do. Po!onceau... Do. United States 2 4N HALF-PAST OIVE. The Consul Market has been buoyant during the morning, and Con sols have improved from 93 T s 94 to 94 34 to 94 34 ; at present they ara 94,1, and the same for money. Exchequer Bills 71 to 73; India Bonds 81 to 83; Bank Stock 203; India Stock 2701. The Foreign Market is in an inactive state. Spanish Active, 201 1, with little doing; Portuguese, 331 rather improved ; Three per Cents , 221 ; Brazilian, 761 ; Mexican, 28i; Dutch Two.and a- Ila!f, 541. The Share Market is very flat to the present time, and most of Qum hare a downward appearance. The Batavier has arrived, bringing the Dutch prices of Monday—. DUTCH FUNDS.—Ammitanam, 3IAV 7. Money. Bi'ls. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amon Svndic,4,4 per cent.-- ............ 95 11 95 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. - N Commercial Company, 4},', per cent ISS 1811 i I go 101 Ditto (18a2 and 133) 5 per cent. , Loan 1836, 4 per cent. - Ditto 1937, 6 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 15 Two months THREE O' CL 0C R Corols for Account, 94a, THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of both Grain and Flour this week are moderate, and as the weather continues ve r y f avourable, the buyers show no disposition to purchase. The samples of Wheat left over from Monday do not go off readily, and other G ra i n meets very little attention at former prices. The Flour trade is also dulL ARRIVALS. Flour. Whelt. Barley. Oats. English ... .. 1,710 sack& Irish ......... 3 , 0 90 qrs. 3,510 qrs. 2,780 qrs. Foreign . ....—. ............ ....... ......... ......... NENVGATE AND LEADENIIALL. Owing to the warm weather the supply of Meat was not so large, and trade was not lively ; prices, where altered, are lower. Beef 26. 4d. to 3e. Gd.; Mutton 9.5. 6d. to 3s. 4d. ; Veal 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork 3s. Gd. to 4s. Bd. ; Irish 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. Fowls are not in large supply and trade was heavy. The following were the prices cf each of the articles quoted. Goslings 71. to Os. ; Chickens 2s. Gd. to :Is. ; Ducklings 4s. 6d. to 7s. ; Pigeons 3d. to 7d. ; Fowls 3s. to 55.; Poo-Hens 10s. ; Turkeys ss. ; Leverets bs, ; Eggs 48 . Gd. to 6s. per 120. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supply very good and prices low. Turbot, 3s. to 155.; Soles, 6d. to 3s. per pair; Lobsters, Is. Gd. to 4s. each; Cod, Bd. to 55., for large ; Whiting, 2d. to 6d. ; Haddock, 4d. to Bd. each ; Salmon, I. lid. per lb. Trade lively. Countlylemileetiigngh, t S o h petitioner i ff o h f . t hEs Houses se has ofParliament consented to call for the mnie a . diate and unconditi ona l a b o liti on o f N egro Sl avery. No taste ha s of l a t e years b een more ex tended in t England than that for gardening. The love of flowers is associated with the most amiable sentiments, and is totally alien from those tem pestuous emotions which are the torments of society, A periodical, exclusively devoted to the material objects with which the former class of feelings are connected, must now, therefore, be as much a necessity of society as political journals. The Gardeners' Gazette was started on this principle, and is both honestly and comprehensively conducted. It Is to the horticulturist and florist what the best of our weekly political papers is to the politician. MOSSES PARLIAMENTARY GUIDE. —This work, which is published by A. H. Bally and Co., has now reached its Sixth Edition, since the present Session, and has deserved its success, for it is the completest and most authentic work of the kind The present edi tion contains all the corrections which have been made during th• Easter recess, together with all the recent decisions of Election COmmittees. ______EA. LORD WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY'S P T''' COMPRESCNO UACIIINX.—We have just had the pleasure of witnessing the operation of this beautiful hand machine. Its object is one of great national importance, inasmuch as it adds to our stock of fuel ; and in countries where coal Is scarce, and peat abounds, It will be an invalu able blessing to the inhabitants. The peat harvest is long a because subject to all the vicissitu d e s of weather; nionth,foldftpernecaelraipouses ere the peat is sufficiently dry to burn. Lord Wi lloughby's machine receives the peat from the bog, after it is moulded by h and, into a form resembling a brick ; it is placed therein, an d all the moist ure i s presse d out of it at one operation ; hence months are ga i ned by this process, simple in its operation, and of the highest importance as to Its utility. His Lordship reserves no patent right, but offers it to the public, who arc much indebted to the Noble Lord for his valuable invention, which makes peat as useful as coal. The meeting for the abolition of Church-rates, yester day, came fully up to our anticipations : it both asserted that ti.ere were now no hopes of immediate success, and re commended continual agitation. Nothing can be more true, and no line of conduct more desirable. Mr. O'CONNELL made an excellent speech on the occasion, but lie would have treated Dr. CHALMERS somewhat differently, we think, had he heard his lecture yesterday. It developed a gigantic scheme of Presbyterian ambition. Dr. CHALMERS aims at establishing a new Government for society, like Mr. OWEN ; and he assured the meeting over and over again, that, if he could get proper clergyman, it was no visionary scheme. Ho is to have a priest teaching only that form of Christianity of which he approves, in every district containing 2,000 persons, who is to be paid by the State for visiting the houses of the people, mingling in their amusements, instructing their child ren , regulating education, drilling their sentiments, forming their thoughts, and twining himself round their hearts by their strongest affections. He is to worm himself into their secrets, and be their friend, confidant, and adviser. His week day lessons are to be enforced by hie Sunday rreaching. Dr. CHALMERS would establish a com plete theocracy in the co un t ry , wh i ch would make every other species of Government wholly impossible. The London mail will, on and after T ues d ay ( t hi s day), arrive in Glasgow about an hour earlier. It was expected some time ago that the mail would arrive at this time three hours earlier, but the delay in opening up the railway has prevented It. —Glasgow Chroxicle. THE LONDON AND EDINBURGH MAIL . .—The arrangements for the acceleration of the London mail a re now com pleted, and on and after the Bth instant the mail will arrive i n E dinburg h athal f-pastBon and Birminzhin place of half. past 9 a. m. an om hourth cliin earlier itod ; tht extensionls, of the -am railway, this, it appears, is ail that will be gained for some time. Seizures, and sales of property seized, for church rates, in different parts of the country, are numerous and increasing. The refusals to pay are becoming general. We learn that the floating out of deck of the new great western steam-shq) The British Queen, fro. n th e yard cf Messrs, Young and Curling, of Limehouse, is posti,oned till the 24th instant, the birth.day of her most Gracious Majssty, in money, according to the value fixed on the contract, If Mr. O'CONNELL had known this, he would have been or a larger sum payable at his death. aware that Dr. CHALMERS is a most ambitious man, and 5. In the event of death before the age at which he would be only uses religion, like MAHOMET, to establish a complete entitled to his Deferred Annuity, to return two-thirds of dominion of Calvinistic and Evangelical Divines. his payments to his family, or such fixed life assurance as may be settled on the contract. 6. In all such cases where the power of productiveness fails, either from disease or accident, to enable the assured on equal terms to couvert his Deferred Annuity into a pre sent Annuity. Do the working classes require a still stronger proof of the immense advantages which the New Institution holds out to them over the best-regulated Benefit Societies ? They are referred to the following tabular exposition of the relative advantages to be derived from paying one shilling weekly into a Benefit Society, or purchasing with the same shilling a Deferred An nuity from the National Loan Fund Institution : A g e ,?0. 'Annuity: Cash. Policy Death. By the Braganza steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Monday, we have received advices from Lisbon of the 2d inst. Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN was to have left Portugal for Eng land last week, but was detained for some days longer, in order to conclude a convention for the more effectual sup pression of the Slave Trade. The efforts of the Ministry to alleviate the financial embarrassments, into which the recent dis turbances and changes in the Cabinet have thrown the country, have given very general satisfaction. The KING and Qum; appear frequently in public, and are well received. The Paris Journals of Monday have all been received. From an article in the Moniteur, it appears that in the event of a war, France could increase her naval force to fifty-three sail of the line, sixty-six frigates, and forty war steamers, ex clusive of small craft. After manning these vessels, a supple mentary marine conscription of 15,000 good seamen would remain at the disposal of the Executive. What say our Lords of the Admiralty to this ? What have they done to promote a corresponding increase on the part of the Naval Power of Great Britain ? On Monday the trial of HUBERT, the intentional Regicide, and his accomplices, commenced in Paris ; but only the pre liminaries were disposed of when the mails left for London. HUBERT is described as "a young man of very feminine ap. pearance, and with a countenance devoid of everything like malignity of expression." Mademoiselle GlouvELLx ap peared elegantly attired, and her bearing was that of a well educated woman. M. LEP ROUX , th e j u d ge implicated in this affair, is only 27 years of age, and is described as a man of grave and dignified appearance. There were five others, whose names are MM. VAUQUELIN, GIRAUD, STEUBLE, VALENTIN, and AUNAT, placed at the Bar as principals or accessories to the melitated design of killing the KING by means of a new infernal machine. There is no other news of the least interest in these journals. The rumour that the KING, if necessary, will exercise the Loyal prerogative to prevent the reduction of the interest on the Five per Cents for another year, is hourly gaining credit on the Bourse. Days. 11 6 1-15 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1838. EVENINGS AT THE OPERA. [From the Court Gazette.) There are many pleasant things in this pleasant world of ours ; and such it is, though disappointed politicians sneer, and worn out roues rail at it, and one is a partie quornee in a box at the Opera, There is the piquant piece of news concerning one's friend opposite (it is so pleasant to have friends, if they will but be frail); then there is the criticism on the new ballet, to show we can criticize; and the applause of the prima donna, because it is the custom to applaud. Besides this, there is the pleasant task of watching the progress of the various flirtations, of laugh. ing at the Baroness --'s vulgarity, and quizzing Lady-'a last party, of smiling at pretty Miss A.'s vanity, and a thousand little things, all so very pleasant to a man about town, who knows they will add a pignancy to his next visit at the Countess -; and on the night of the last draw. ing room did I find myself thus situated in Lady B.'s box. " Do you see our friend opposite?" murmured into my ear Louisa Hautaine; "how devoted he is to the heiress !" " Yes! no doubt he thinks that moustache of his irresistible; but, to my mind, he certainly has more hairs than graces." The whitest of teeth and the most gentlemanly of laughs from Sir George attested the effect of the sally. How fond people are of laughing when they can show a good set of teeth " How thankful we should be," said Louisa Hautaine, " that we are not heiresses." " Are you ❑ot ?" " How ?" " Heiress of all that is charming ?" " A very pretty compliment, but--" " Not true ?" inquired Lady William. " No! but not new, which is more unpardonable." " Oh ! do look at that odious coquette," lithped Sir George, " how some people can allow their wives to be so open in their flertations, I cannot imagine." " The good man is not much given to imagine,"whispered Lady William " You would be like those of old." I replied, " who punished the dis. covery, and not the crime." " Ha! ha! very good," and again the white teeth gleamed on our sight and wonder :--I wonder if they are real I At this moment, even our• attention was commanded by the splendid voice of Persian; which, without effort, filled the house with its melody. " What a splendid complexion Lady R. has," said Louisa when the scene was concluded. " Yes, and so convenient—comes and goes whenever she pleases." " Ah I Lady William, you arc too severe." " I ? you wrong me, cousin : but I remember hearing my mamma talk of its chameleon-like hues as a thing of twenty years." " Do you see young Fitzjames—his collar a la Byron, with those wild elf locks of his ? I do believe he fancies he's a poet." " I can assure you fancy has little enough to do with him. The epi gram on a bad singer would suit him admirably." " Swans sing before they die ; no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. Now, who is severe ? Do you see young S-- and his wife ?" " Sce them ! I see them wherever I so ; but, apropos of nothing, did you hear of the elopement some time since ? No! Allow me to tell you then.—l pique myself on a being a raconteur. Not a hundred miles from Belgrave-square, resided a gallant officer, with a fair daughter, heiress of his wealth ; guarded with the eyes of a hun dred Arguses, it became very difficult for any of our younger sons to whisper those soft things said to be so attractive to your sex. However, " Love will creep in where it claurna wed be seen," and at last the lady's heart became touched. Almack's listened to their vows, and Hyde Park responded to their sighs; and the upshot was (for I see you are getting ennuyee), an elopement to Gretna. Within an hour after their departure, papa had received intelligence, and his car riage and four of his finest horses gave chase to the fugitives. Imagine their consternation when they beheld papa, first at a distance, then that distance diminishing by degrees, until they were within hearing. Young -- promised the wealth of Crcesus to the Post boy if he evaded them. The lady shut her eyes, and went into hysterics. At that moment the gallant pursuer was not ten yards behind them, when the lover, who is a dead shot, and one of the coolest fellows in the world, bethought him of his duelling pistols, which he luckily had with him. Waiting until time heads of the leaders were even with the window of his carriage, he took a delightful aim at the foremost; the horse rolled, the postillion rolled with him, and the carriage was unable to proceed. The gentleman took off his hat to his future father-in-law, dashed on to Gretna Green, and a month afterwards was laughing at the adventure with the General over a bottle of claret. " How interesting !" said Louisa. " Charm' ng," said Lady William. " No doubt you think so ; but allow me to remind you that the Opera is concluded; and as Lady J-- is beckoning ►o me, I can only say au rceoir. We shall meet at the Duchss -- after the ballet, I pre sume. As Sir Benjamin Backbite says, I leave my character in your bands once more, au revoir. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TIIIS DAY DEAL, MAY B.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Came down from the River, and proceeded, the Gratitude, White, for Barbadoes ; Druid, Spruce, for Quebec ; Sarah and Elisabeth, Davison, for Bourdeaux and Mau ritius ; Adelade, for Cape Coast. Arrived, and remain in the Downs, the Tom Bowline, for Messina; Harmony, for Jersey. PORTSMOUTH, MAY B.—Wind s , fine.—Arrive.l the Jane, Darley, from Rotterdam; Hernial, from Rostock. Sailed the Colombo, Mackellar, for Madras and Calcutta. Her Mcjesty's ship Bellerophon has gone out of harbour to Spit head. PLYMOUTH, MAY 7.—Wind E.—Salle,' the George Henry, Oporto. Far.mourn, May 7.—Wind variable, light breezes, and tine.—Ar. rived her Majesty's steamer, Meteor, Lieut. Pritchard, from a cruise, with the mails of the Linnet packet, from the West Indies; Linnet, packet, Lieut. Downey, from St. Thomas, sailed 31st March, on freight, 5,0001. sterling; Braganze (steamer), M`Lcod, from Gibraltar, lett 27th, Cadiz, 28th April, Lisbon, 2, Oporto, 3, and Vigo, 4th May. Arrived off port, Pauline Brandt, Boyse, from Cette. Sailed the Iberia (steamer), Middleton, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar; her Majesty's (steamer) Meteor, from a cruise. Mem. The Tagus (steamer), from Falmouth, arrived at Vigo on the 3d instant, and left same day for Oporto, Lisbon, &c. LivgarooL, , MAY B.—Wind variable, and very light.—Sailed the Gipsey, for Rio Janeiro; St. Andrew, for New York ; Fair Barbadian, for Buenos Ayres; Columbia, for Alexandria; Watt, for Africa : St. Patrick, for Newfoundland ; St. Leone, for Castine ; Ann, for Constan. tinople ; Alfred, for New York. SraacAre CarIEB, MAY: R.—Arrived the Heart of Oak, Cork, from Palermo. SZAPORD, MAY S.—Arrived off port the Clarence, Moller, from Mes sina; William Gray, Gray, from Oporto; Conitantia, Avilar, Lisbon. DARTMOUTH, MAY B.—Arrived off port the Lovely Cruiser, Cox, from Lisbon. CLIDE, MAY 6.—Arrived the Hamilton, Mitchel, from Marseilles. Motor, MAY 7.—Arrived the John and William, Stanley, from Gibraltar; Mary Sweet, Sweet, from Oporto; City of Limerick steamer, and Britannia steamer, from London. KINSALE, MAY G. —Arrived ofF, the Catherine, from Messina. SDIELDS, MAY B.—Arrived the Frederike, Krohl, from Memel. MI.!, MAY B.—Arrived tho Mercury, Groning, from Stettin; Jubi. lee, Spencer, and Rob Roy steamer, from Hamburg. HUMBEit, MAY S.— Arrived the Victor, Chatnhorg, from Stralsund. The Protector, from Whitehaven to St. Thomas's, was wrecked on Onegada, M.trch 24 ; crew saved. The worthy curate of a parish not far from St. Peter at Gowts, in this city, a ctually forgot "to publish the banns" of a loving couple on Sunday last! The amorous pair are compelled by this unfor tunate occurrence to remain another week in a state of single blessedness. —Lincoln Gazette. Cotton gloves are furnished by the Saxon manufac turers al low as six groschen, or 2d. starling per dozen pairs ; stockings at one dollar, or 3s. per dozen pairs; and nightcaps at eight groschen, or is. per dozen. Stout cotton caps, which are worn by the carmen and common people in that part of Germany, having stripes in six dif ferent colours upon a black ground, cost 12 groschen per dozen, or I id. sterling each. General Count Montholon, the companion in exile of Napoleon, who, from reverses of fortune, was obliged, during the I teAoration, to become bankrupt, bat made a formal application for being reinstated in his civil rights. Saturday being the anniversary of the death of Napoleon, great numbers of innnortelles were, as usual, deposited at the foot of the column in the Place Vendome. SUDDEN DEATll.—Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, an inquest was held at the Montague Arms, Montague-street, Russell square, on the body of George Briggs, aged 24 years. It ap- Pezred that the deceased, who had been for some time in the service of Sir James Flower, and was apparently in robust health on Sunday night, having just seen home a respectable female to whom he was paying his addresses, as he was leaving the door he suddenly fell to the ground, and ceased to exist. Verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God." Yesterday morning at a quarter past seven a hostile meeting took place at Wormwood Scrubs, between Mr. Borthwick, late M.P. for Evesham, and Mr. Rushout, of the Ist Life Guards, in conse quence of some observations lately made by the former gentleman at a public dinner given to him by his late constituents. After two shots each had been exchanged we understood that Captain 13iddulph, acting for Mr. Rushout, withdrew his principal from the ground, and the atair of course terminated. A few days since, while the Normandie was landing her passengers at Havre, an American lady, in the act of landing, was taken suddenly ill. She was carried to her cabin, where, in the course of a few minutes, she was safely delivered of a fine boy. TIIE WELLINGTON STATUE.--011 Monday the Wellington Statue Committee met numerously at the Mansion-house; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the Chair. After several speeches had been made, the Committee requested Sir Francis Chantrey to com mence his work immediately. Sir Francis Chantrey assured the meet ing that the Duke of Wellington was to sit to him in a few days. The Committee then adjourned. THE MANUVACTURING INTEREST.--A person who resides in this town, but who travels in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, assures us that the exportation of machinery by the port of Hull to the Continent is enormous, lie states that a party who were then pack ing machinery at Hull assured him that their house had exported ma chinery to the value of 10,0001. in that week. Ile further states that nearly one-half of the craft that ply on the Ouse, the Aire, and the Don, are engaged in the traffic. The Manchester machinery has been sent by the Liverpool and Leeds coach to the latter place, from thence it is taken, as well as the wool and flax maehinery, by the railway, by wa y of Selby, to Hull. Since Mr. P. Thomson gave up the bobbins and carriages that were seized on their transit to Prague, it appears little notice is taken of the export of machinery to the east countries.— Nottingham Journal. The Algonquin packet, at Philadelphia, had forty days of heavy wasterly gales, which obliged her to run too far South. she brought from Liverpool a cargo valued at 300,000 dollars, sot a pac kage of which was injured, She sprung a leak, and the leak was two or three feet under water. Captain Turley's sagacity and ability i n saving the vessel and lives of the passengers, were conspicuous on this occasion. He prepared wood in battens and pieces of canvass, and nailed them over the breach, to do which he had to swing a man over the bow with a line round his waist, and as the ship rose on the sea, he was enabled to give two or three blows with the hammer. No one could remain over more than five minutes at a time, for with every plunge she made be was buried in the sea. Captain Turley, his mate, and the carpenter, took their turn in being dropped over.—New York E ven ing Star. The officers of th e << Animals' Friend Society" caused eight useful convictions last week, by Sir John Key and Messrs Jeremy an d Trail!. The cabdriver, 953, f or f ur i ous driving, and run. ning over a child, by which its leg was broken. The hackney coach. man, 012, the cab-driver 1220, Michael Duggen, John Wendle, Tho. mas Mitchell, William Phelps and John Hayes, all to be heavily fined for greet cruelty to their horses, and the last two also for assaults on the prosecutors, while taking them into custody. The officers likewise charged James Bartlett with having carried calves in a eart, packed up in the usual crud way, with their heads hanging down. Messrs. Jeremy and Traill suggested a method, with strings, for the calves' heeds 10 rest on, so as to prevent such cruelty, which plan the defen dant promised to adopt, and the complaint was therefore dismissed. A very aggravated case was, how ever, unfortunately dismissed by the Lord Mayor, in which Mrs. Mott's carran had violently lashed a horse to move a load with two other horses, which five were unable to stir. The Lord Nam said hit considered the lashing not wanton but necessary. LITERATURE. LONDON AND WE. REVIEW, No. LX. London, Ilooper, 1838. There is one review in this Number wlrich will be read with great interest—we allude to the " Poets of the MeL bourne Ministry," which is a notice of some of the early productions, in prose and verse, of Lords Palmerston, Howick, Glenelg, Melbourne, John Russell, and Messrs. Spring Rice and Hobhouse. Of the last named gentle man's poems, but two or three couplets are given, which we consider fortunate, for certes they are' more like the cacklings of the goose than the melodies of the swan. Lord Howick's poesy is better ; the lines trundle on smoothly, and the thoughts are as amiable and innocent as sucking. doves. In Mr. Spring Rice's stanzas on revisisting Cam bridge " after an Absence of Twenty Years," we recog nize much genuine, unaffected feeling, expressed io a style that agreeably reminds us of Cowper in his " Task." Of Lord John Russell's tragic capabilities we cannot say much ; the extracts from his Don Carlos are, in truth, very so so , and wo u ld b e apt to create a strong shudder in one not inured to the inflictions of bad verse. His Lordship, how ever shows to advantage in his more lively effusions, and accordingly we quote with pleasure his rhymes entitled " London in September," which possess much of that point and observation which we admire in Swift's description of a " City Shower :" " Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, A single horseman paces Rctton Row ; In Brookes's sits one quidnunc to peruse The broad, doll sheet, whiCh tells the lack of news ; At White's a lonely Brummell lifts his glass To see two Empty hackney-coaches pass ; The timid housemaid, issuing forth, can dare To take her lover's arm in Grosvenor-square; From shop deserted hastes the 'prentice dandy, And seeks—oh bliss 1 the molly —a tempora fandi : Meantime the batter'd pavement is at rest, And waiters wait in vain to spy a guest;. Thomas himself, Cook, Warren, Fenton, Long, Have all left town to join the Margate throng ; The wealthy tailor on the Sussex shore Displays and drives his blue barouche and four; The peer, who made him rich, with dog and gun Toils o'er a Scottish moor, and braves a scorching sun." Few, we suspect, arc aware that Lord Melbourne once wrote a comedy 'yclept " Fashionable Friends," which was damned with such incredible expedition by a benighted audience, and quizzed so severely by a set of London jour nalists equally obnubilated, that the publication of it became an act of self-defence. We have read the Reviewer's ex-, tracts from this calumniated comedy, and find some wit, and considerable worldly shrewdness in them. The dialogues however, are far too much spun out, and had they all been of equal length with those here quoted, few of the perfor mers would have survived the first rehearsal, but would have gone off in that sort of quiet apoplexy which is induced by listening to a long story. Lord Glonelg's Cambridge Prize Poem, judging from the extracts before us, is smoothly versified, and reminds us by its " dormant strength," of Sir Robert Peel's favourite yeomanry, which that illustrious statesman is so unwilling to disband, because, as he himself has assured us, the country has not the slightest occasion for their services. We take for granted that as there are so many poets in our present Cabinet—so many, indeed, that Downing -street may be fairly called a nest of nightingales —Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill will find in them its most strenuous supporters. They arc indeed vitally in terested in this measure, for consider what an additional value it will impart to the copyright of Lord John Rus sell's tragedy and Lord Melbourne's comedy ! " Poems and Romances of Alfred de Vigny" is a pains -taking, and apparently impartial, notice of the works of one of the most successful authors of young France. We must eonfesss, however, that we have perused it With'but little interest ; for the horrid depravities of taste—the sprawling monsters—and the exaggerated sensibilities—of which the imaginative literature of la jeune France is almost wholly made up, to the diligent exclusion of al that is sound and healthy in intellect, have given us a strong dislike to it . The " Philosophy of Fiction" shows no ordinary powers of thought, but its tone of sentiment is in places a little too enthusiastic. " Hood's Own,"—an extract from which we gave in The Sun of last week—does justice, and no more than justice, to the merits of one of the most original humourists that have appeared among us since the days of Peter Pinder. Hood's wit is not, as is too often supposed, the wit of mere expression, but has a substance about it —something that the fancy may feed upon at its leisure—it is in fact, the wit of thought, and as such, resembles But ler's " Hudibras." We do not, however, agree with the Reviewer, that Mr. Hood's serious productions are as able as his humourous ones. With the single excep tion of " Eugene Aram's Dream," his grave, descrip tive, impassioned poems are little better than elaborate failures—witness, his " Plea of the Midsummer Fu ries," which, instead of being imaginative, is purely gro tesque, for it turns upon the circumstance of the poet having, on one fine summer evening, put up a covey of fairies, near the Horse-and-Groom, at Lea-bridge ! Of the remaining articles in the Number we Lave neither time nor space to speak as we could wish ; we must content our selves, therefore, with saying in brief, general terms, that all of them are well-selected, and many of them well dis cussed. PETER PLYMLEY'S LETTERS. London, Longman, 1838. The republication of these Letters, after the interest of the subject which called them forth has ceased, is a striking proof of their great merit. They were written for the purpose of forwarding the cause of Catholic Emancipation ; and as their author, Mr. Sidney Smith, was well aware that the opponents of such a cause were not to be con vinced by any reasoning, however sound and practical, he wisely resolved to have recourse to ridicule, and laugh therii into common-sense. And most efficiently has he exe. cuted his purpose. The Letters of Peter Plymley—under which disguise he launches his keen and dazzling jests-- abound in the most exquisite specimens of mingled satire and humour. In one place, we arc reminded of the refined facetiousness of Addison ; in another, of the stern and earnest sarcasm of Swift ; and in a third, of the broad and riotous drollery of Smollett. We can imagine the sensation that Mr. Plymley's first appearance in print must have produced among the opponents of the Catholics. How they must have twisted and writhed beneath the hardy grasp of his logic ; and shrunk with dismay from the piercing lightnings of his satire ! We have no doubt that that it was to these admirable letters, that much of that public spirit was owing, which enabled the Duke of Wel lington in 1829 to strike the fetters from the Catholic, without a national convulsion. ODDITIES OF LONDO.N LIFE.-2 Vols. Bentley, London, IS3B. Those who desire to acquaint themselves with the native humour of the lower classes in and about the metropolis, cannot do better than read these volumes ; for they have no fanciful garniture or rhetorical embellishments : but are in truth, what they profess to be, the most exact and literal transcripts of low, perhaps the lowest, London life. The dialogues, in particular, are admirable, rich, racy—replete with coarse, but expressive, drollery—and with such uni form truth of character, that one might almost fancy they had been taken down word for word from the life. The embellishments are not less characteristic. They are by various artists, so that ther e i s no monotony of humour. Country readers, imperfectly acquainted with the odd say ings and doings of the low Cockney will derive much amusement from this laughable work. FINE ART: PORTRAIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA. We have just seen an embossed profile of her Majesty Queen Victoria, which is finished in a very superior style of beauty. As a likeness, it is, without exception, the best we have yet seen—and from the skill of the graving would show to advantage in a frame. Cuarous DEPOSIT OF GREEK AND EGYPTIAN Conga, FOUND NEAR POLTIMORE, 'POUR MILES FROM EXETER, BY CAPTAIN SHORT, OP IIEAVITREE.—Thirty coins were lately, dug up between Pinhoe and Poltimorc, in a potatoe field—of these twelve bear Greek inscriptions, and four are of the Ptolemies—(three of which, Arsinoc, or Cleopatra); one a male bust and 3 (sth year) on the field. Another is of Antiochus IX., of Syria, called Philopator. There arc also two large medallions of Alexandria of Adrian, and Antoninus Pius —a Greek Colonial coin of Gallus, of Cresarea in Cappadocia; a coin with two heads, apparently of Severus, and some barbarian ally of Rome, in a huge fur cap; two.of P.larcus Aurelius, of Samosata, in Syria, and a small Egyptian co i n with a frog on it, between a water-lilly and a bullrush. Ninet een others are Roman, of Constantine, Valentinian, and two of Arcadius. They are in the line of the great Roman Fosswery, and most likely belonged to some Syrian or Egyptian troops encamped on the spot, which is not far from the summer camp at Rd lerton (Sir T. D. Acland's seat) ; twenty-four Ptolemies have been found in Devon at various times, and mostly at Eyeter, besides many Syrian coins, all decyphered lately by Captain short. COURT CIRCUDAR. ••• • ri all • Her"MalestY took an airing in Ihe parks yeste rdaraTternoonq c.pen carriage and f our, a tt en d e d by t h e Ma rc h ion es s of Tvistcek. ) Visc;.unt Me:bourne had an audience ;. , :ster...7:ay of the Queen. Her Majesty honoured the performance of I Purilanc. and La res semblance at her Majesty's Theatre l;)st *evenilg witOlier presence_ Her Majesty was accomp an i e d b y h er R oya l Hi g hness the Duchess of Kent. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took a drive yesterday in an op en pony phaeton and four. at The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday the New Palace. The Duke of Sussex and, the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and Ducl,css of Cambridgp yesleiday at Cambridge.houze. The Princess August a t oo k an a i r i ng at Kens i ngton yesterday in a carriage and four. kr. Brown and Mr. L ew i s wa i te d as a deputation on Lor d J. 11.0" sell by appointment y e st er d ay at the Home-off 1 11 : Home-office, with a Inern °3 o f the T. 2 Leen, very numerously and respectably signed by the tradesmen. 0 . 0 Westminster, relative t o th e precess i on on.the appioaching votooti owtain, Sir Francis Head, Bart, t h e Lord-Advocate. of Scotland, Pechell, M.P., and Mr. bannerman, M.P., had interviews with Visc Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. The Ottoman Ambassador and the Belgian Minister transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign-17;ffice. Sir Francis Head, Bart., and Mr. W. Villiers Stuart had intetliel" with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial-office. -->-;,~; THE COURT .13)1I,L.—The most active prepara tions 0,, tions are making for this grand entertainment at the new ra , af, Extra chandeliers, of the mo s t , cos tly d e s cr i pt i on ( a ll o f British re:" p , factors.), have been suspended in th e th ree pr i nc i pa l sa loons to be , propriated to dancing, viz., the gr an d sa l oon, or pr i n cipal dral' , ,, ne , room ; the north, or second d raw i ng room ; t h e sout h , or yellow.dr" be a n ing room. In the two latter o rc h es t ras f or t h e occas i on have ~e t he erected. The grand picture gallery, near ly 200 f ee t i n l e ngth, wit h ~ Throne room, State diningloom (an apartment of great spacionsi7a., the Queen's drawing room,:asce. will all be thrown open, and brilli . ri :' .. , , illuminated on the occasion. It will be - the first ball given at the " Palace. Two Horticultural Fetes, upon the grandest , sc ale ever held in England, are to fake place under the immediate suis.e_t_',,, tendence of several hundreds of the nobility, at Cremorne-house, Ki,itsa road. The beautiful gardens and lower suite of rooms have been en 1, 3 1 - 0, especially for the 19th Mayeand 16th June. Three or four of the l o “ rai cipal military bands are engaged for the occasion, and there is a moral certainty of a Royal visit. 'Tickets are issuing in great numbers, as 1 ,. do for either date ; and arfangements are made to accommoda te thousand persons in the eventsef bad weather. We understand from the best authority that, Irit i :, o s , view to obviate the inj ur y lik e l y t o b e sustained by trade in the I ne . t - it t polls from the Coronati on t a ki ng p l ac e at the early period at whir-11_1o.. present stands appointed, her Majesty has been graciously pleased tu is es mate her intention of givi ng a ser i es o f grand banquets and Court Toe after this august ceremony, so that the London season may b e t ' e a longed, and distinguished families induced to remain in tosern 3 t ies events until the first weeknof August. From the nu mber ana dis h at guished rank of foreigners who will necessarily be sojourning ip, tovr tio this period, several leaders of haul ton have intimated a like 'inters wirh her Majesty. Apprehensions of the most painful nature have bo o . been excited, that the vessel (conseanded by Captain Farreli hs lt In which Mr. Macaulay 'sailed from Indi a h as f oun d ere d a t iiel. a t eit only present ground for a rumo ur w hi c h carries with it the o ° 4 is alarm and anxiety, is a letter received by a well-known rricr ei ' ll a irta a thC City of London, and which reached him by the messesti er al brought over-land despfitclies to Govern men t . It states 'hat p , D ori sailors had escaped. No intelligence res p ec ti ng t hi s h as, however, ' received, either at the India-house or by Government. The Bishop of Hereford has signified his intent l°l : not in future to ordain any gentl eman see ki ng to enter i nto 'holy or de r / after he shall have attained thirty years ofage.—Here s ford Times. .' I tr d EXPEDITIOUS TaAVELLING.—A conamiercia l ex ve4ler arrived in this .city at ten on Thursday evening who 11 ' 4 0 Dumfries, in Scotland, on the previous morning at ten. He a rri a c s eete, Liverpool by a steamee"froin•Duenfries'in time to get a good etigh t' '„ot s and start the next morning byhalf-pa'st six to Birminghambl 'Junction, Railway, which occupied four hours and a half; fecal ti" an he was in time farla coach to Bristol ; so that he had a night's rest, perforated his joueney; upwards cf :300 miles, in thirty-six " ti Bristol Journal, hal f ETON MONTEICI.--lief Majesty will, WO _, / at honour this triennial f ' te with her presence. The richest dress es s e preparing for the occasion. The noblemen and geutleneen educated stun will keep their annual festival on Saturday next. with unu' splendour. The Montem takes place on the sth of next, month. L. of ti,'• AN UNFORTUNATE JOKE.--TIIC capture - eie- Prince George's launch was attributable to a practical joke of le de young midshipmen, who - were in the boats astern of her, and ashes . f e sc ing that every one in the launch, including th'e lieutenant, W m ' or asleep, and did not hear the order given to weigh, 'they resolved t ", d ag theif paynter, and leave the launch to herself. This unlucky ja ° &sr the Grence, in the capture of the boat the disgrace of her officer and of the A some valuable lives" -- Brenton's L(fe of St. Vincent. lf God bears with the veil sisal worst of us Tre surely endure eacliothee—Sir /1". Scott. CROeKIFORD.—IId has amassed an jair" .ll : 6 o fortune within the l as t 25 'Years; from begin a small retail tradess'„,aor he has become the po ssessor not only of tills splendid house, b t l ' ; ',,, t e• "another, very fine one in London, and. likely's° of a mansion and i 7 . , ' ,,i, at Ntwmarket, formerly the property of one ()four oldest noble fae e p' tf He is, in addition to all these, the proprietor of much valuable PrO_ t br in London, and has a son established in 'the svinestrade, with perher..sh, beseetocked cellars in the metropolis. ; Nor is this all; lie wouldmr:t, you a check for a hundred thousand pOinids with quite as nane lt ` ea ter: . himself as the Bank of England could, and time has been with 11TL . ,,,e, * *i * It is a question that puzzles half the world how and w h en such Immense wealth, exceeding 300,000/., it is asserted, ha s amassed by any individual. Givin s ffim all the advantages'Crock fe we i s known to possess of a cle ar ca t eu fati ng h ead — the versat il e lingo" to. of the Latina, the capo'scaltr• of the It a li ans i n t o th e b arga in, in t ... face of such prodigality of purse — as we h ave few modern exam ples o f a without the aid of a large capital to begi n w ith , w h ich, it is well c, was not this man's case. tt is, howev er , we ll k nown that he ~..- assisted with capital, and in high qu a rt ers t oo , as, i t i s to be feared, a' . this period of thirst for speculation and gain, another such. a ma n woul cl ' be with the certainty of turning up such a trump.— The AnatonY °,. J Gaming in &ma. CAPTAIN JOHN MAITLAND AND THE Aful, i ' reea—One of the earliest and m os t me l anc h o ly i nstances of mutini:"-,,• the Lisbon Station,. after the general explosion had taken place at hose!' , , a was on board the Kingliher sloop of war, whil e lyi ng at si s a"s ar sa n r st ". the Taus. "Captain John keitland whO very lately died a Rear_Adella9- , had the comma6d of the vessel, and finding among his crew some D e ' unequivocal symptoms of turbulence, he ordered the hands , ole . turned up fo weigh the a n c h or. Th ey re f used to obey. Herfflised 'diately singled out one of th e ringleaders, and ordered him to be s ell up for punishment ; but w h en thi s h a d b een done, O ne o f the 3: t 0 , officers went' up deliberately to the gra ti ng, an d cu t th e seizing , oic , ~ release the prisoner. On this Maitland drew his dirk, and lam' e 0 offender, doad, or mortally woun d e d , on the deck. Two o ther ri t e were 'also severely wounded by him. He was well supported 0 0 0 officers, and the whole muti ny was instantly quelled. The Iciw kirs remained, as they hate ever d one, f a i thful to their King. Ha vi°g e subdued her in rebellious crew by t hi s we ll -timed but severe ces ur e, h a-ri , proceeded to sea, nbt at a ll a f ra id b f trusting himself with h i & refract t on i people. 'On joining the fleet off Cadiz, he demanded a courtrinir t ' s oe himself fur having put th'eMan to death. It w as gran t e d ; and, „, li . e d St' acquitted, but admo n i s h e d to be more temperate in future. I"; tee Vincent certainly did not participate in the feeling which dictateda i of admonition, fof I am cre dib l y informed that he invited the mc nber e ai ' the courtmartial to di nner ; an d , after the cloth was remove d , gav a -, a toast, " Maitland's radical cure.".-Bresaon's Life of St. Tired . a , '' STAGE COACTIES.—When the expenses of . t d , r io ~' yelling by public or p r i va t e carr i ages, or by hired vehicles, ar e Pal. a t re is not often con s id ere d th at t hO se who are engaged in this b us iness coy taxed to the amount of 835,8201. annually. There is :-I,aa lle c r e oef horSe duty, yieldi ng 231 , 0401 ., b e i ng at the rate of gd, per mile sk.ejA time a post-chaise is c a ll e d i n t o serv i ce. 2 . The duty on carriag e i , es igr to let for hire bein g Cl. ss. on each carri a ge w ith - four i u eea and 31. ss. on each carr i age w i t h two wheels, which pr od ' in 36;82 . 31. per annum ; and operates with considerable 'hardsh:l'i its many cases, as open carriages,are required in summer, ancEcdn'se ° : 2 ,,,sa' winter, so that, where this is'the case, the duty may reaP.l be be d e ; derea . equivalent to 10/. 10s. on Stich carriage; a Im-seas'sam t ° ,, ald ducted froth the receipts on hiring. 3. The annual licence du' , eos ne n,' a by each postrnasteebeing severs shillings and sixpehce per'aiia i f ,,,ehes' clueing 2 7 3704 annually. 4. The mileage duty on dtag e f a - 5 7) t'' amounting . , to above half a million sterling a-year (in •`,...„' g oal i five huared thousand pounds. It is charged on a gradu al ': -" for a coach carrying four passengers Id. per mile; six piesersge r " Bled' 4welve, 2i. ; fifteen, 3d.; and fur eighteen passengere, sid.,Pe r „,. iv' whether the cbaoh be full or empty. The Welli-n,gton coach, l' as sie, stance, which runs through this town, between London and N evy a wia' a distance of 278 mil es, pays 6d, per double mile, or 2,f6 5 / 2 SgA A ally on pl 2 jonrneys. 5. The. licence duly on stage-conchal' , on each Co ach kept to run ; producing 20,113/. per anntinis all pus able for coache s w hi c h run on l y a port i on of the year, airing g g yC for instance. The prop r i e t ors o f the Weljington coach pay 204 -...., o under this heat], as four coac h es are requited. 6. The assessed t n ., 0 coachmen and guards, b e i ng 1/. Si. on ea c h ; the charge b eing 17 'lli for the number required on a long stage like the Wellingtet b , aS total amount which this ta x y i e ld s ist it 3,708/. per anion. 7 . '' t ; s in sensed tax on draught horses, yielding 5,911/. per annum' ro jere 10i. 6d. on each horse used in s t age -waggons; the pr o p r ietors of ~ JOS' if they carry passen g e rs , t a k e out a ri annual license, which cos ts 2* —Doncaster Gazette. On Tuesday l as t, R e b ecca Ti ng l e, ne i ce to 14 a i rg : Thackray, of Herringthore, near Rotherham, died in the follow i r ' t 011 . tressing manner :—She had been in the hen roost seeking egV ; sita' was passing through a tr a p-d oor, w h en t h e door fell W , an d she " qu iti pended by the neck bet ween it and, the floor. She was f o und dead absout tingen minutes afterwards.—Doncester Gazette. ' 011 1, A ular imitance o f the adaptation of the rnat. Of feeling in the irrational animals, may be seen at Mr. Line's, ''. l l osts town. He has a cat which i s suc kli ng a y O ung dog fox, al°n g e l' e °if' kitten, and pussey seem s as muc h attached to it as to her' ISrl u s eti spring. Three cubs were originally put under her fostering 0 0' only outer the numb er survived.—Kendal Mercury. , fvP l ' e GEOLOGICL CURIOSLTIES.—A discoverJ 1 0 0 common interest tutee observer of geological phenomena has tiv4 tbe go' in excavating a space of ground for the site of two gas-pita et , e btles ° ' works, Rochdale. These works, as many of our readers, o",..tie , know, are situated on a low, flat piece of ground, at the foot, of the d a r eto e. , • hills and the Camp-hill, and on the left of the new road ?raw sfl f o rtress According to tradition the former hill is the site of tax ancient ainsia of the Saxon lord of _the district; add the latter hill, at present, Wa° riished much in its height and extent, and covered with gardens' tai thrown up-by the Danes, who, in one of their devastating su re : c ria ' leagured the castle, and were s l aug h tered on the fiat grounds " e TV the river. The site of the gas-works is known to this day 3 ' tb ,,t a -Kill-Danes." Long before this even t , however, it. would sec t ' Its far more terrific destruction had swept over the place of this valley ; fe e le tre e making the excavation before mentioned, at a depth of seven te4l 9 from the surface, were discovered a number of laige and state- , Ov er- ascertained to be oak ; they exhibited no marks of any tool; °le r " -rcst whelming power had broken up their roots, and crushed and 8g:f:roil . their branches, with a force apparently as resistless as our comnie en ~t_eoa ae to the d r i e d fern. The trees had grown upon a strata of hr of a loured gravel a n d san d ; above it is a thick layer o: loam, or mua and dull gray col our; a n d lastly, on the surface is a cake of black ea r; ,,, to turf. The trees are four in number, all lying from the eas tw .. 3 e r ; te s , er p i t a r ‘ t v s a , s p , wards the west, plainly indicating that the destructive force, w" t .,, c e their weight, inches in diameter; they are of nearly as large proporticins, and, iil asi .B ; e p r i f • e o c ce tl e y ded in that direction. One of the stems is twen.t_Y-,00,,, fla re to in s i o ,r u o i p t dt proportion .. t c o o b l o u u u r , e , s i t s like s.cry lo g g r i c y a oo t. d, and nearly as B • MANCHESTER TRADE.—We aro happy market' that of it in. our power to confirm, by the result of yesterday's rna r e - ' rue nt os vcurable report we made last week with respect to the improve . .io o, more 0 0 7_ , se a trade. Both in yarns and in goods there was deCicicdly doing ; all apprehensisen of their becoming lower seemed 'to bav n _ f ie, away, and buyers were eoneing into the market with apparent c0,,r0.7i4t,, Prices were readily obtained both for twist and cloth which . a . f . : co l h , „ or even a week ago, could rice be realized ; and, in some in t .. " 14 , 00 e positive advance upon the late selling Prices wairobliseneta.4 l o o4 " Cif zownleano